Example sentences of "[verb] was at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one bed that was occupied was at the far end of the ward . |
| 2 | The accepted rate at which New York life moved was at least three factors faster than in London . |
| 3 | Clearly Fjortoft ( who has sucked at Swindon , not a single goal yet ! ) and maybe also Sorloth ( who as before mentioned was at a 14-day trial at Leeds and scored in all his test matches ) will be picked . |
| 4 | the reasons why the item involved was at the location ; |
| 5 | You 've got okay you 've got something like a six I do n't even know what time the train comes they change at different times , the one I 've caught was at five past nine train . |
| 6 | The one she insisted on inspecting was at the back . |
| 7 | What they had said was at the end of the war they aimed at a safe and lasting peace , and to obtain that they demanded a setting up of a League of Nations . |
| 8 | The next time I noticed was at the terminus |
| 9 | AMERICAN journalist William Shirer 's Berlin Diary records on September 18 that year : ‘ The longest Red Cross train I 've ever seen was at the Potsdamer Bahnhof . |
| 10 | There was no equivalent of the ATB in Norway — the nearest approach seen was at Lien College where there was a low trainee to instructor ratio and a considerable practical input . |
| 11 | The largest gathering previously seen was at the 1972 Neo-classical exhibition held at the V&A in London , organised by Mario Praz and Hugh Honour , which had managed to assemble fourteen sculptures . |
| 12 | The highly organised St Stephen 's Society programme which she now leads was at that time a closed book to her ! |
| 13 | If they were looking for more cancer then surely the place to look was at the next vulnerable point ? |
| 14 | For even if the setting did not have the same grandeur and the leading characters did not have the same epic cast as twenty years earlier , the role that de Gaulle himself had to play was at least as arduous as that which he had played in the Second World War . |
| 15 | The radio was on , whatever it was that shrieked was at it full-blast , and from somewhere upstairs came music that sounded as if it proceeded from a violin . |
| 16 | Thus we can assert that the kingdom of Cunobelin ( Shakespeare 's Cymbeline ) , whose capital and mint we know was at Camulodonum ( Colchester ) , extended over most of Essex and Hertfordshire . |
| 17 | The Egypt into which Nasser was born was at its base an old and stable society . |
| 18 | ‘ The first time I remember was at home , ’ said Marian . |
| 19 | Now I did not have the slightest intention of going down for a drink : all the drinking I was going to do was at the reception — if I ever got to the wedding . |
| 20 | Two years later , one of the strangest fires recorded was at Dr Symington 's store house and monkey house . |
| 21 | The only poor shot I hit was at the 14th , when a little wedge went right over the green . ’ |
| 22 | The moment came , and in walked Robin and Henrietta Tavistock ; his expression was one of sheer amazement , and when he saw his father the Duke of Bedford , whom he thought was at his chalet in Méribel , I saw tears of emotion flood his eyes for a moment . |
| 23 | Back to his best Billy Lancaster , who goes from strength to strength each season , beat the talented Mark Jones , last year 's runner-up , by 21–16 , while Bob Severs was at his best to beat Michael Ryan 21–7 . |
| 24 | What is our concern , though , is the notion of love which he saw was at the centre of understanding the work of Christ . |
| 25 | the first piece of Bhimji 's work I saw was at her degree show at Goldsmiths ' College in 1987 . |
| 26 | Everyone you knew was at school . |
| 27 | The justice 's role in the disposal of the offence with which Mr. Bell was charged was at an end . |
| 28 | Since the Headmaster had been in a bad mood almost everything anyone did was at the risk of being punished . |
| 29 | Whilst everything that Becker did was at white heat and lightning speed , with drastic simplifications , Squirrell delighted in working with extremely precise topographical accuracy . |
| 30 | ‘ I am satisfied that there are no grounds on which I can say that these charges are bad , but with regard to the equity of redemption I am satisfied on the evidence that what Mrs. Wardman did was at the request of and in reliance on her daughter , and under her influence . |